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Example sentences for "quicksands"

Lexicographically close words:
quickly; quickness; quickning; quicks; quicksand; quickset; quicksilver; quickstep; quiconque; quicquam
  1. In a moment it flashed across his mind that these must be the quicksands about which he had heard so often, but of which he had known nothing.

  2. Two or three places seemed inviting, but his horse was afraid of them, and on investigating, Hugh found that bad quicksands lay close to the bank.

  3. At ordinary stages it is very wide but very shallow, rippling over the quicksands in tawny waves.

  4. This stream we have to cross from time to time, and we find the quicksands treacherous and our horses floundering in the trembling masses.

  5. Arthur Sargent had been drowned; Percy Lockwell was lynched, and Leslie Lawrence met his death in the quicksands of Big Sandy River.

  6. Her last words to me were a message to him, for she does not know he is dead beneath the quicksands of Big Sandy.

  7. I can forget now," he declared, thinking of the man under the quicksands of Big Sandy.

  8. The man he had captured was the one he believed beneath the quicksands of Big Sandy River, Leslie Lawrence!

  9. The quicksands saved him from the gallows.

  10. She knew not that the man had been swallowed beneath the quicksands of the Big Sandy.

  11. One lesson was enough; the sensation of the sinking of the horse's hindlegs in quicksands is not to be forgotten.

  12. It was a long, pleasant ride; its only drawback to me being the fording of the river, which had quicksands and a rapid current.

  13. We had encountered quicksands together in the bed of a Virginia stream, and both horse and rider were recalling the fearful sensation when the animal's hindlegs sank, leaving his body engulfed in the soil.

  14. It was quite dark when we reached the Saunas River, which we attempted to pass at several points, but found it full of water, and the quicksands were bad.

  15. The rain that had been falling all night gave no sign of stopping, but kept pouring down all day long, and the swamps and quicksands mired the horses, whether they marched in the roads or across the adjacent fields.

  16. Considering the great things they had to accomplish, considering the sea which they had to tame, the quicksands which they had to bind, considering all this, I said to them surely there was nothing they needed so much.

  17. The water was only up to the saddle girths, and the stream was not more than twenty feet wide, yet I feared that both horse and rider would sink before my eyes in the treacherous quicksands which composed the bed of the brook.

  18. Dense fogs would arise of a sudden, quicksands abounded, and had a nasty trick of shifting their place ever and anon.

  19. The Quicksands of Life" is, however, a novel pure and simple, and the reader need not be apprehensive of finding the work a mere treatise on the Irish Question.

  20. JOHN MILNE, Publisher New Six Shilling Novels The Quicksands of Life BY J.

  21. Through four days we travelled almost incessantly, until at midnight on the fifth our camels' feet sank deep into the quicksands that render the entrance to Saba unapproachable.

  22. He remembered to have caught a glimpse of her at the Quicksands Club, and Mrs. Dallam nor her house were not mentioned by either.

  23. If there--were leisure in this too-leisurely chronicle for what might be called aftermath, the dinner that Honora had given to some of her Quicksands friends might be described.

  24. Blackfriars Bridge had just given way, and two over the Tyne, one built by Smeaton, had collapsed by reason of quicksands under their piers.

  25. And similarly Pitt's policy was collapsing through the treacherous quicksands on which it was based.

  26. By reason of the boil and swirl, and the shifting quicksands under hoof, his pony lost its foothold and went down.

  27. It must have been this first price, undoubtedly, that appealed to Sidney Dallam, model for all husbands: to Sidney, who had had as much of an idea of buying in Quicksands as of acquiring a Scotch shooting box.

  28. Hold on," he protested, "I don't know about this Quicksands proposition.

  29. She remembered that there was a train for Quicksands at seven-fifteen, which Howard had taken once or twice.

  30. Wouldn't you go down to Quicksands with me and spend the night--and pay us a little visit?

  31. Three years before Quicksands had gasped to hear that the Sidney Dallams had bought the Faraday house --or rather what remained of it.

  32. We're going to Quicksands for a while, first.

  33. This temple, of course, was the Quicksands Club.

  34. Only--the habit every one has in Quicksands of speaking of people they don't know well by their nicknames seems rather bad taste.

  35. Mrs. Kame, "I thought Quicksands people never went home after a victory.

  36. If I can put this through, coming to Quicksands will have been worth while.

  37. How give an idea of the libations poured out to Gad and the shekels laid aside for Meni in the Quicksands Temple?

  38. I've scarcely been here long enough," replied Honora, "to have acquired all of the Quicksands habits.

  39. Find out the rent in the morning, Sid, and we'll all four go down on Sunday and look at it, and lunch at the Quicksands Club.

  40. It was facetious when water and quicksands were encountered, and inclined to be sarcastic when work was suspended on account of the weather.

  41. The goal was bright before his eyes, but quicksands dragged at his feet.

  42. The quicksands were of great extent at low water, and had an infamous reputation in the country.

  43. The sun was about setting; the tide was low, and all the quicksands uncovered; and I was moving along, lost in unpleasant thought, when I was suddenly thunderstruck to perceive the prints of human feet.

  44. The sun had broken through the clouds by a last effort, and coloured the wide level of quicksands with a dusky purple.

  45. Your feet are in strange quicksands and your head among chimeras.

  46. In an hour the mutable quicksands of a great city would swallow him forever.

  47. Michelet's description of the quicksands which surround the mount is distinctly good.

  48. Tartars, forsook his capital in Shensi and followed the stream down almost to the sea, braving the quicksands and the floods rather than face those terrible foes.

  49. They have no rebellious stream or treacherous quicksands to contend with.

  50. But it was not the quicksands he feared, as Tressa supposed, but the bohunks.

  51. For the quicksands were fighting to the last ditch, swallowing whole forests of trees and hills of rock, and opening its maw for more.

  52. Again he would walk out on the sleepers above the quicksands and glory in the solidity beneath his feet.

  53. I can but leave to conjecture how the Germans would have got along on bottomless roads--often none at all--through the swamps and quicksands of Northern Virginia.

  54. It was in vain that piles of stones and brushwood were strewn upon the roadway; the quicksands dragged them down as fast as they were placed.

  55. He scarcely knew in what direction to turn, for the running away of his pony and his adventures with the wild beasts and in the quicksands had completely bewildered him.

  56. Chapter XXV In the Quicksands Jack ducked down and dodged the ocelot, and got past the animal.

  57. And during the week that followed he lacked the moral courage either to discuss the subject of Quicksands thoroughly or to let it alone: to put down his foot like a Turk or accede like a Crichton.

  58. That you won't stay in Quicksands more than six months," he answered.

  59. Nor can a complete picture of life at Quicksands be undertaken.

  60. You know very well you don't like these Quicksands people.

  61. He had picked up the game with characteristic aptitude abroad --Quicksands had yet to learn it.

  62. The odds are a thoroughbred horse against a personally knitted worsted waistcoat that you won't stay in Quicksands six months.


  63. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "quicksands" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    ledge; pitfall; quicksand; reef; sandbank; sandbar; shoal; snag; undercurrent; undertow